Stories
- Book extract
Winter blues and the story of SAD
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
- Article
Reversing the psychiatric gaze
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.
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Investigating what lithium is and how it works
The more questions Laura Grace Simpkins asked about lithium, the more she realised how little is known about this powerful drug and how it affects our mental health.
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How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms
Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?
Catalogue
- Books
University of Exeter Mood Disorders Centre.
University of Exeter.Date: [2012?]
- Books
- Online
The genetics of mood disorders / Ming T. Tsuang, Stephen V. Faraone.
Tsuang, Ming T., 1931-Date: [1990], ©1990
- Digital Images
- Online
Up and down mood disorders
Neil Tinning- Books
Before Prozac : the troubled history of mood disorders in psychiatry / Edward Shorter.
Shorter, Edward.Date: 2009- Books
A mood apart : a thinker's guide to emotion and its disorders / Peter C. Whybrow, M.D.
Whybrow, Peter C.Date: 1998